Size determines their properties. Alexey ekimov, Moungi Bawendi and louis brus discovered and developed this artificially created collection of semiconducting nanoparticles. They are just a few millionths of a Millimetre Wide and glow blue, red or green when exposed to light. Quantum dots already have commercial and scientific uses and, in future, could contribute to flexible electronics, thinner solar cells and encrypted quantum communication. So, Moungi Bawendi, erm, i dont know, viewers may be watching this programme on qled tv one of the things that have arisen from the work that youve done so just tell us about how your work collectively can be used to improve lives. So, qleds is one of the biggest moneymaking applications of quantum dots but the field, in the last few decades, has grown enormously and theres a lot of people working on many other potential applications that have yet to see either commercial success or the applications being proven, and that includes fields going f
size determines their properties. alexey ekimov, moungi bawendi and louis brus discovered and developed this artificially created collection of semiconducting nanoparticles. they are just a few millionths of a millimetre wide and glow blue, red or green when exposed to light. quantum dots already have commercial and scientific uses and, in future, could contribute to flexible electronics, thinner solar cells and encrypted quantum communication. so, moungi bawendi, erm, i don t know, viewers may be watching this programme on qled tv one of the things that have arisen from the work that you ve done so just tell us about how your work collectively can be used to improve lives. so, qleds is one of the biggest moneymaking applications of quantum dots but the field, in the last few decades, has grown enormously and there s a lot of people working on many other potential applications that have yet to see either commercial success or the applications being proven, and that includ
of sweden and prince daniel, as well as students from here in sweden. welcome to nobel minds and the second of our two programmes. laureates, this is the first time that some of you have been brought together in discussion on television. congratulations to you all. thank you. applause. first, let s look at the chemistry prize with its scientific breakthroughs that have myriad uses that will benefit humankind. let s have a short video looking at what the prize for chemistry was made for. it s very strange. the nano world is really, really bizarre. when matter is reduced to its smallest dimensions, it s made up of quantum dots nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties. alexey ekimov, moungi bawendi and louis brus discovered and developed this artificially created collection of semiconducting nanoparticles. they are just a few millionths of a millimetre wide and glow blue, red or green when exposed to light. quantum dots already have commercial and scie
the nano world is really, really bizarre. when matter is reduced to its smallest dimensions, it s made up of quantum dots nanoparticles so tiny that their size determines their properties. alexey ekimov, moungi bawendi and louis brus discovered and developed this artificially created collection of semiconducting nanoparticles. they are just a few millionths of a millimetre wide and glow blue, red or green when exposed to light. quantum dots already have commercial and scientific uses and, infuture, could contribute to flexible electronics, thinner solar cells and encrypted quantum communication. so, moungi bawendi, erm, i don t know, viewers may be watching this programme on qled tv one of the things that have arisen from the work that you ve done so just tell us about how your work collectively can be used to improve lives. so, qleds is one of the biggest moneymaking applications of quantum dots but the field, in the last few decades, has grown enormously and there s a
well, there are 37 books, but of course, these are all the different translations and editions. and as you can see, it starts with eye of the needle. in german, that was die nadel. and comes up all the way to the armour of light. so, 37 books. yeah. in how many languages? a0 languages, altogether. total number of copies sold around the world? 191 million. so, as an author who is very proud of the fact that i ve sold a million, i ve got a long way to go. just making me a littlejealous, ken. you had written, though, 11 books before you had a bestseller. yes. eye of the needle was my 11th, and it was my first bestseller. you didn t start out writing books, though. i mean, that was not your very firstjob. i was a newspaper reporter. so, you wrote your first novel while you had yourjob on the newspaper, and you wrote it in the evenings in your flat in london. yes, that s right. as a kind of side job. you had a young child at the time, though. yes. actually, by that time, we had tw